HAMILTON MARKETS

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19566, 3 May 1935, Page 10

HAMILTON MARKETS

FRUIT AND PRODUCE. STEADY DEMAND MAINTAINED. THE LATEST QUOTATIONS. A ready inquiry for all lines of fruit and vegetables has been received on the (Hamilton markets during the past week, and with a good demand prevailing late rates have been well maintained. Very little orchaidstored fruit is available to-day, and growers are drawing upon their coolstore supplies to meet the market, with the result that prices -show a hardening tendency. The fruit which Is being offered from this latter source this year is of excellent quality. The ruling prices are as follows: Apples, orchard stored: Ballarats and Rome 'Beauty, 5s to 5s Gd; Delicious, 4s Gd to 5s Gd; Jenitons and Granny Smith, Gs to Gs Gd. Cool stored: Delicious, Rome Beauty and Sturmer, is to 7s Gd; Winter Cole and Nelis pears, 10s to 11s; Packham’is Triumph, to 7s x 6d; cooking pears, 5s to 7s; tomatoes, best Gs to 7s Gd; lemons, first grade 12s to 14s, second grade 6s to 10s; American oranges, 34s to 38s; bananas,- 24s to 27s Gd; pineapples, 15s to ISs. Values for Vegetables. All seasonable tines of vegetables are coming forward in large quantities, and prices for (several lines, including cabbages and cauliflowers, have eased. .■ The latest quotations are as follows: Cauliflowers, 10s to 12s per sack; cabbages, 10s to 14sr Brussels sprouts, 4d to 4id lb; kumaras, 4s 6d to 5s sugar bag; pumpkins, red 4s to Gs, grey 5s to 8s; carrots, parsnips and beet, Is to Is 2d dozen bundles; lettuce, 3s to 4s case; celery, Is lOd to 2s 3d bundle; pie melons (practically unsaleable), is 6d to 3s cwt; potatoes, 10s to Us cwt; onions, 8s sugar bag. Produce and Cereals. There have been several alterations in prices for produce and cereals ‘during the past week. Bran and pollard have declined slightly to 7s 3d and 7s Gd per 1001 b respectively, while chaff is down 10s, to £8 a ton. On the other hand oats i have risen sharply to 4s 9d for A Gartons and ,4s Gd for B Gartons. Wheat is firm at Gs Gd per bushel, while maize is making ss, mixed grain 4s 9d and barley 4s Gd. ' Eggsi Butter and Fish. Eggs are very difficult to obtain and the price for hen eggs has advanced to 2s Gd per dozen, duck eggs making 2s 4d and pullets’ 2s. Butler is unchanged at Is for 'first grade, lid for second and lOd l'or separator.

While schnapper and terakihi are in fairly good supply the unsettled weather lias had the effect of restricting supplies of flounder, ' which are scarce. Prices for all varieties of fish are on a par with late rate's. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. Cnlted Tress Assn.—Ku>e. Tel. p opyri!rlit SYDNEY, May 3. (Following are to-day’s quotations on the Sydney produce market;—Wheat: Market very quiet. Quotations, at country sidings, 2s BAd, equal to 3s 3Jd for bagged, and 3s 4Jd for bulk, ex trucks Sydney. iFlour, £ll 10s; bran and pollard, £4 15s; potatoes, Tasmanian,' £8 to £9; others, £G; onions, Victorian brown Spanish, £10: while, £l4; maize, yellow and white, 3s Bd. ADELAIDE, May 3. Wheat: Growers’ lots, new crop, 3s 2d; flour, bakers' lots, £l2; bran, £5; pollard, £5 2s Gd; oats, Algerian, Is lOd; barley, 2s 7d to 2s Bd.